Pesto Season!!!

Have you harvested your basil yet? No worries if you haven't. I know my plants are way too small. I recommend you go to your local farmers market where they are still selling plants OR even easier, selling bunches of basil cheap, cheap, cheap!

These are definitely not the prettiest basil leaves I have
ever seen...in fact some of the leaves are almost too big.

For my pesto, I used Canadian Living's recipe over here. I do make a budget version however, replacing the parm with romano cheese and pine nuts with walnuts. FYI: you pretty much get the same result.

Another thing: this year I did not use my Magic Bullet, which really did not work effectively. I did jullienne my basil before placing it into my mini-processor, an attachment that came with my immersion blender.

The result was a far better pesto!

Making pesto gave me an excuse to use an itty-bitty Weck jar that I bought at Williams-Sonoma for $2.50 on sale. Totally impractical yet so cute!